Dissent Ireland Busses to G8 Summit 05!

international | anti-capitalism | press release

Tuesday April 12, 2005 19:51

by DISSENT IRELAND. - Dissent

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Dissent [Eire] - Network Of Resistance against the G8-2005.

Dissent Ireland are running two types of busses (and more should we need to) to the g8 summit in Scotland this summer;

One will be a 10day trip leaving on the 1st of July and returning ten days later on the 10th.
A Shorter trip will leave on the 5th of July to get people there for the July6th Day of action to shut down the summit and return on the 7th.

Busses will be leaving from Cork, Galway, Limerick, Dublin and Belfast.
Please get in touch with the contact nearest to you to arrange your place on the bus.

Ed Manning - Kilkenny 0863716422
Aron Baker - Westmeath 0872895036
Rob Black - Cork 0860536647
Tracey Ryan - Limerick 0876543425
Delacey Ahearne - Waterford 0861039345
Brian Whelan – Dublin 0877412431

Calendar of Events.

Friday 1st July
Edinburgh Critical Mass

Saturday 2nd July
Make Poverty History march in Edinburgh. Up to 200,000 expected. Anti-Capitalist “make capitalism history” bloc planned.

Sun 3rd July
'Community Anarchy Project' Street Carnival born out of the community work that the community anarchy crew have been doing
G8 Alternatives Counter-Conference. www.g8alternatives.org.uk

Mon 4th July

Bike Caravan arrives.

Big Blockade of Faslane Nuclear Submarine Base. Called for by Trident Ploughshares and CND. – www.faslaneg8.com

Working Group Against Work Actions. A carnivalesque parade through Edinburgh, visiting places responsible for the increasingly precarious way in which we experience work and life: dole offices, debt collectors, employment agencies and more. www.dissent.org.uk

Tue 5th July
Beacons of Dissent! Action. An attempt to light beacons on the hills surrounding the G8 Summit the night before the Conference begins.

No Borders Demo at Dungavel Detention Center.

Wendnesday 6th July

Global Day OF ACTION!

Different styles of action will be used to blockade different routes to Gleneagles. www.dissent.org.uk
Demonstration. A demonstration from Gleneagles train station, via the entrance to the Hotel, to a nearby park has been called for by G8 Alternatives. www.g8alternatives.org.uk

Global Day of Action. A day of decentralised action, in villages, towns and cities worldwide has been called for by the Peoples' Global Action European Conference and the 'Caracol Intergalaktika', an autonomous space within the International Youth Camp at the World Social Forum. www.agp.org
Autonomous Kids 'Mad Hatters Tea Party' near Gleneagles

Thursday 7th July

Day put aside for prisoner support and decentralised actions around the area coming from the convergence spaces. Blockades might continue from day before

Peoples' Golfing Action (PGA) Actions. An attempt to hold a people’s golf tournament on Gleneagles golf course. Plus fours not required.
www.tao.ca/~wrench/dist/g8/pga.html

Friday 8th July
International day of action against the causes of climate change. www.dissent.org.uk

Other actions, including actions by an autonomous kids group, the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army (CIRCA: www.clownarmy.org), the G8 Feminist Action (http://g8feministaction.frockon.org) and a queer anti-G8 group (www.queeruption.org.uk/queerg8) and others are being planned throughout the Summit.
More people are needed to get involved with organising the above actions. Follow the web links, get in touch and get involved! If there’s nothing which appeals to you here, get together with others and start organising something of your own.